The Tempest

We want caliban to be left behind in what is, after all, his own place, but shakespeare neither indulges nor denies our desires. If Prospero is at last a kind of benign logo (an impossible oxymoron) , then caliban?s recalcitrances finally look like an idiosyncratic rebellion of actor against playwright, creature against demiurge. A warm monster is dramatically more sympathetic than a cold magus, but that simplistic differences does not explain away the enigma of caliban.

VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner?s The Sound and the Fury and Don Delillo?s White Noise.

Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Miraculous Harp : A Reading of Shakespeare?s Tempest
• The Eye of the storm: Structure and myth in shakespear?s Tempest
• Learning to curse: Linguistic Colonialism in the tempest
• The Tempest as Supplement
• The Shakespearean" Metastance" Prospero?s Wife
• Prospero: Master of Self knowledge
• This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine" The Tempest and the discourse of colonialism
• Chronology